For brokers think Reuters Trading, Newedge, MF Global, etc those firms generally allow 1-2 million dollar accounts for high volume institutional trading, but generally accept around 5 million. Bloomberg Tradebook is at least a 10-20 million minimum last time a checked.

For charting software they use Bloomberg, Reuters, CQG as the majors. You can also plugin your broker into the CQG or Reuters trading platforms. There is also SunGard Global Trading.

I recommend Reuters Metastock, it is lower priced than the aforementioned products and has very wide international market access.

For brokers think Reuters Trading, Newedge, MF Global, etc those firms generally allow 1-2 million dollar accounts for high volume institutional trading, but generally accept around 5 million. Bloomberg Tradebook is at least a 10-20 million minimum last time a checked.

For charting software they use Bloomberg, Reuters, CQG as the majors. You can also plugin your broker into the CQG or Reuters trading platforms. There is also SunGard Global Trading.

I recommend Reuters Metastock, it is lower priced than the aforementioned products and has very wide international market access.

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Thankyou. What about using MultiCharts through Interactive Brokers to manage a fund?

IB is a decent direct access retail broker and it may be acceptable for accounts under a few million, after that point they may have trouble clearing and you will need to a use an institutional prime brokerage as I have written previously.

I still would recommend Reuters Metastock as one of the premier solutions, not Multicharts as Reuters is a large reputable company and you are much less likely to have reliability issues. However I would even prefer Interactive Data to Multicharts.

For brokers think Reuters Trading, Newedge, MF Global, etc those firms generally allow 1-2 million dollar accounts for high volume institutional trading, but generally accept around 5 million. Bloomberg Tradebook is at least a 10-20 million minimum last time a checked.

For charting software they use Bloomberg, Reuters, CQG as the majors. You can also plugin your broker into the CQG or Reuters trading platforms. There is also SunGard Global Trading.

I recommend Reuters Metastock, it is lower priced than the aforementioned products and has very wide international market access.

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reiser is correct. i used tradebook and tt when i was on the prop desk at a large ibank and am currently using a combination of gs redi, ms passport, tt, and cqg at my current fund. bloomberg is used as an all-around tool...msgs, chatting, news, charts, etc. we don't use bloomberg as a trading platform.

There are many small professional CTAs (e.g. $10m in assets) that use Tradestation, simply because they have a pretty decent backtesting and execution platform that comes with years of intraday data -- despite all the well-known shortcomings.

reiser is correct. i used tradebook and tt when i was on the prop desk at a large ibank and am currently using a combination of gs redi, ms passport, tt, and cqg at my current fund. bloomberg is used as an all-around tool...msgs, chatting, news, charts, etc. we don't use bloomberg as a trading platform.

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Don't like Redi, but couldn't recommend the Barclays system enough. Really nice...